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The Living Library Event
The Living Library event took place on the 11th of May at the Inn of France (Auberge de France), Medieval City of Rhodes that was provided by the Region of South Aegean and the French Consulate.
The University of the Aegean – School of Humanities and the Municipality of Rhodes assisted in spreading the word of the event.
The venue had multiple working rooms to host the readings of the human books and a set up convenient to overview spaces to ensure the procedure in a seamless way.
The Living Library started at 10 a.m. and reading rounds ended up around 1 p.m., followed by the evaluations and taking photos. Each reading-session time lasted for some 25 minutes ("reading"+questions).
For one Human Book we had to interpret to English, so the reading lasted 10 minutes longer – 35 minutes in total. After that, we had 10 minutes break for the Books to rest and the readers to have some water, beverages, snacks etc. and find out where is their next Book to read.
Overall, our involvement to the Project had a positive impact to the organization and the local community. First of all, we are part of an international team of esteemed partners, each excelling to its local community. Thus the cooperation and exchange of knowledge and best practices benefits our organization on an operational level. The Expressions in Dialogue specifically and the Living Libraries methodology in general is a very attractive tool, that has been cherished in our local community and has gained many friends and willing participants.
The international trainings attract a number of people that are trained and then work to pass over this acquired skills and practices to a wider audience of interested people of various professions and ages. Numerous side events are planned to be executed in the future. Thus, the Expressions in Dialogue project remains at the very heart of the House of Europe in Rhodes activities and thanks to the skills and people attached, the practices gained will remained a valuable asset to the organization's toolbox.
The preparation process of the multiplier events had a significant impact to how local community perceives young refugees and migrants. Rhodes is a first station where refugees arrive from the neighbouring islands and stay in Rhodes from few days to a few months until they are processed and forwarded to other places in Greece. That creates a problematic of finding refugees that are willing and able to actively be involved to such projects. So, we targeted to educate local community through the use of people working with refugees and first responders. Thus, the targeted audience where exposed not to personal experiences but the accumulated stories handled by various people.
At the local level we have targeted, on purpose, on a smaller targeted audience for the main event. That included a combined team of 18 members and over 35 readers, plus a couple of observers (UN Refugees Agency). The overall evaluation was positive and it assisted readers to better understand the situation of refugees, and minimize feelings of discrimination and prejudices towards refugees and migrants.
The Living Libraries practice has been a proved tool to promote inclusion and awareness. The specialized targeting of our project, Expressions in Dialogue, despite its challenges, is a very emotionally rewarding experience for all those involved. At the same time, it is a unique opportunity for participating organizations to further get involved to their local communities and assist to young refugees/migrants inclusion, while gaining substantial international experience.
Bachar Abbas – "The Interpreter"
A interpreter from Damascus, who helped a lot the local authorities to communicate with migrants and refugees through translation passing on their messages from the first hands.
Dionisis Gouvias – "Learning the alphabet"
A deputy professor at the University of Aegean, in charge of tutoring the Greek language to young refugees and migrants.
Tha'er – "Th'aer = revolution"
A 21 y.o. young refugee from Iraq who currently stays at Rhodes and has an asylum seeker status.
Abbas Alrukby - "Escape from Iraq"
A 20 y.o. young refugee from Iraq who is trying to find friends and set up his life at Rhodes.
Matina Amerikanou – "Everything for returning home"
A 37 y.o. owner of funeral services office from Rhodes, who was in charge not only for arranging all the details with the dead bodies of refugees but also was the person who had to make all the arrangements with the repatriation of them.
Vladimir Kaisides – "re-collection"
A 30 y.o. former port authority security officer, who was in charge of collecting the bodies of the dead refugees and migrants from the Mediterranean Sea.
The project at local level in Rhodes involved several stakeholders:
The Municipality of Rhodes, the Auberge de France, the South Aegean region and the University of the Aegean.
The Region of South Aegean and the French Consulate in Rhodes provided with the venue of our multiplier event.
The Municipality of Rhodes, the University of the Aegean – School of Humanities and the Center of Vocational Training "Georgios Genimatas" assisted with allocating the suitable participants to the international trainings, that would then train and assist the rest of the team.
Towards that direction, Mrs Adamantia Fatsea assisted, in her capacity as Special Advisor on Sustainable Development for the Directorate of Secondary Education of Dodecanese, which attracted educators and teachers to the program, either as participants to the trainings or members of the local team.
The impact to the local stakeholders has been positive, as they contributed actively to manning and executing the Multiplier event and they are eager to further and deepen their involvement to similar events in the future.
Finally, the participation of refugees was secured through the UN Refugees Agency in Rhodes. There overall impression was positive (they refused to provide with written evaluation).
The process created another multiplier event to take place also in Athens. To that event the stakeholders were mainly the House of Europe in Rhodes and the Library and Archives of the Jesuites Order in Athens. The venue was the Municipal Market of Kipseli, a building of the City of Athens, operated by the Impact Hub Athens as an open social enterpreneurship space. The project was realized by a smaller team, off the base of the House of Europe, as an experiment for further outreach.
Organisation Description
The House of Europe in Rhodes is a non-governmental, non-profit organization aiming on promoting the European Idea and the communication among the people of Europe. Its vision includes active participation in the procedure of the European Integration and the creation of a network of dialogue in Europe, the Mediterranean and the rest of the world.
The House of Europe in Rhodes was founded in 2000 and it is a member of the National Network of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures and the European Network for Education and Training e.V. – EUNET.
The House has demonstrated significant contribution to the cultural and academic development of Rhodes, participating in major events and being a member of international networks and projects. Furthermore, it created academic institutions in Rhodes, such as the awarded Rhodes Model Regional Co-operation international conference. In 2012, the House was awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean for its "commitment to dialogue and integration and the support to youth development".
The Coordination team
The local Living Library in Rhodes was possible thanks to the engagement of the Coordinators Team,
the Librarians, Facilitators, Interpreters and specially to every and each Human Books with their live stories.
Political Scientist
In 2010 Magdalene, became an active member of the House of Europe in Rhodes and started getting involved with active citizenship and voluntarism. In 2013 she continued as the Head of the Youth Committee in the House of Europe in Rhodes, implementing actions and daily conferences promoting and empowering youth initiatives in local and in European level as well. Since February of 2015, she serves as the Secretary of the Board of the NGO.
As a passionate member of the organization she has undertaken various projects, programs and actions regarding voluntary work, young entrepreneurship and the promotion of European values in general. Moreover, she is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Annual Conference, Rhodes Model Regional Cooperation (RhodesMRC), while she has served as a member of the Secretariat and as the Secretary General of the conference. Since 2017, along with Michael Kavuklis, as the main coordinators, they have organized three Living Libraries events in the Old Town of Rhodes in order to reduce stereotypes, prejudice and all types of discrimination promoting inclusion and a general framework of understanding.
Since 2016, simultaneously with her voluntary work in the House of Europe in Rhodes she works as an event planner, while in 2019 she accomplished her Master degree in Event Management. Last but not least, she is a member of the Board of the Greek Cancer Society – Department of Rhodes.
President of the House of Europe in Rhodes
Michael G. Kavuklis is currently the President of the Board of the House of Europe in Rhodes and its international projects manager. Born and raised in Rhodes, Greece, Michael holds a BA in International and European Studies from the University of Macedonia and a MA in International, Political, and Economic Relations in the Mediterranean by the University of the Aegean.
Apart from being a political scientist and active citizen, he launched and handled Youth Projects for the House (member since 2007, Board Member since 2010, President since 2014) and was a member of the Youth Committee of the European Network for Education and Training e.V. – EUNET since 2009-2016, being involved in various youth projects. He has been selected and has experience of significant youth leadership programs like 8th International Neighbourhood Symposium, ``Managing Change in Europe's Neighbourhoods`` (Speaker, Odessa, Ukraine 2018), Nantes Creative Generations Forum (Nantes, 2013), ``(Euro)pean open end crisis - What is the vision for Europe in the 21 century?`` (Berlin, Paris, Bruxelles, Thessaloniki, 2012-2013) by the Franco-German Youth Office, the 1st International Neighbourhood Symposium (Istanbul, 2011), ``Managing the Challenges of Human Security on Europe's Borders and Beyond``, (Vienna, 2009), ``Water & Cultures in Dialogue``, Torino Youth Forum (Turin, 2008).
He is also in charge of the Greek National Network of Anna Lindh Foundation for South East Greece (Aegean-Crete). He has founded and run Rhodes Model Regional Co-operation, an internationally acclaimed simulation conference, since 2010. In October 2017, he was elected to the Board of the European Network for Education and Training, e.V. – EUNET.
He runs a small digital marketing agency in Rhodes, Greece, specialized in tourism, SMEs, NGOs and culture, since 2005. In that capacity he was a member of the bidding team for the candidacy of Rhodes for the title of European Capilita of Culture 2021, for which Rhodes was a finalist, in charge of Communication and International Networking.


Made by traditional artists, Annamalaiyaar & Unnamalaiyaar Tanjore Paintings are believed to bestow auspicious blessings to your home and preserved as valued antiques. These Tanjore Paintings are great for adorning Pooja rooms in homes, office and business places.
Lord Shiva is called by devotees as Arunachaleswarar or Annamalayar. The Arunachaleswarar Temple in Thiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu is considered to be the largest temple in the world dedicated to Shiva. The history of the temple transports you to thousands of years back.
The Saiva cult or Saivism is followed by millions of Hindus all over the world, and Thiruvannamalai is the capital of the cult. Annamalaiannal is regarded as the most sacred of the many Thirunamams or Namams (Tamil for names) of Lord Shiva.
This temple has been mentioned in several places in the great Tamil works of Thevaram and Thiruvasagam. The Siva Puranam mentions Thiruvannamalai as one of the four sacred places for finding salvation; therefore, this temple is known by the Tamizhians as "Ninaithale Mukthi Tharum Thiruthalam" simply by chanting the names of Lord Arunachaleswarar.
One of the Pancha Bhoota Stalas and Manipooraga Sthalam, the lingam in the temple is called Agni lingam and represents the element of fire. The deity's consort is Parvathi also known as Unnamulai Amman or Unnamalaiyaar.
In most holy places, the deity is found on the top of the hill, but here the holy hill itself represents the principal deity - Lord Annamalaiyar and is revered with utmost piety. The meaning of "Arunam" is sun and symbolizes the red colour of fiery fire, while "Asalam" is "malai" or "Giri" (mountain).
Saint poets - Thirunavukkarasar, Thirugnana Sambandar, Sundarar, et al have produced rich poetry. They are believed to have visited the place, worshiped Lord Shiva and eulogized it with Bhakti songs. Saint Manickavasagar had spent a considerable period of his life at Thiruvannamalai composing "Thiruvammanai" and "Thiruvempavai - 20". Even today you can find a temple for Saint Manickavasagar on the Girivalam (Circumambulation) path at the foothills of Thiruvannamalai.
The Annamalaiyaar & Unnamalaiyaar Tanjore Paintings sold by Sandiv Art Gallery are marked by lively, flat and vibrant colours and reveal a delicate work of matchless artistry by local craftsmen. If you've been searching online for one, then this is it.


I've been where you ladies are at. Tried everything from accutane to yasmin (which works by the way I just started losing my hair from the shift in hormones), antibiotics, diet ( reducing refined sugars and trigger foods will help control cystic acne, that's a very long post, trust me. The quick end is Loren Cordain wrote a very short book call the the dietary cure for acne, and it's spot on in explaining the hormonal roller coaster we are all on) you name it. This has been going on for more than 25 years. Before my wedding in OCt I tripped upon another website for acne and there were some people having great succes with good ole BP and salycilic acid. The catch is in the application. I tried every bp product in the world till this point and they didin't work, but now I use it a little differently. I use an SA wash by OXY and then the OXY wash with 10% BP as a mask for 10-15 min in the morning and at night. The results have been great. Don't be afraid of moisturizer, i know us acne suff. tend to dry our skin out to no end, but use an oil free moisturizer, cause you will get dry. I still get an occasional bugger around by period, but they resolve at some point. IN the past I needed to get cortizone injections they were so deep and inflamed. My best guess is that when bp is not layered on very thickly and given the appropriate amount of time to work, some of us have too stubborn bacteria or too much and it's not effective. THis allows the med to work longer. All I can say is I've been able to control mine to where my life is no longer on hold. I also avoid refined sugar, I use stevia or xylitol to sweeten everything i make myself and i use splenda or other diet products when i'm out. I hate to use the latter because i'm not convinced they're healthy but i crave a diet coke with food sometimes. eating better will definitely help to some extent and dr perricone in his book the the clear skin prescription talks about coffee both reg and decaf having an effect on the adrenal glands which ultimately effects testosterone, etc to have the effect on acne. Sorry this is so lengthy and sloppy, but i knew i hadn't been doing my part to help the cause. good luck.


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Microsoft Azure Launches G-Series VMs, Key Vault, Docker Images
The new features offer faster performance, security features and easier deployment of containerization technology.
Microsoft is rolling out a trio of new features for its Azure cloud computing service. First, its super-fast G-Series VMs are now generally available. According to the company, "G-series sizes provide the most memory, the highest processing power and the largest amount of local SSD [solid-state drive] of any virtual machine size currently available in the public cloud."
Second, the company is rolling out a public preview of Azure Key Vault, which offers a cloud-based alternative to hardware security module (HSM) appliances. "Azure Key Vault helps customers safeguard and control keys and secrets using HSMs in the cloud, with ease and at cloud-scale," Microsoft said. "Key Vault can be configured in minutes, without the need to deploy, wait for or manage an HSM and has a single programming model across HSM-protected and software-protected keys."
Third, the company is offering a new image called "Docker on Ubuntu Server by Canonical and Microsoft Open Tech." The service previously supported Docker, but the new image makes the technology easier to deploy.

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Posters will be shown at the meeting. There are a limited number of poster boards. The size of poster board is 3 ft (w) x 4 ft (h).
Abstracts submitted before September 15th may be considered for a talk.
Decision for poster acceptance will be made at on-going basis. All decisions will be communicated via email to the presenters.
For description of poster award, click here.
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End of October 2018 - British Movement News, Views and Opinions
End of October 2018
British Movement News, Views and Opinions
Remember - 100 Years Ago the Guns Fell Silent
No More Brothers Wars In Europe
More Contrived and Carefully Constructed Establishment Propaganda: straight out of George Orwell's '1984'
The State creates a mythical threat and the media re-enforces the message so that the general public start to believe it is real.
This report appeared in the 'Guardian' newspaper on October 29th - the tone of approval by this left-wing newspaper is obvious. Note too the name of the senior police officer responsible for taking action against the alleged "far-Right threat" - Neil Basu (given his ethnic background he will be suitably hostile to any organisation to the Right of the Conservative party).
Meanwhile in Europe:
Assorted Left wing and self-styled 'progressive' or 'civil society' organisations are agitating for all European Union governments to "outlaw" racial Nationalist political organisations.
MEP's in the European parliament have voted for measures to be put in place across all EU states to outlaw what they describe as "neo-fascist and neo-nazi" movements.
Threatened by the rise of populist and anti-immigration political parties the Left want the threat to their kind of multi-cultural politics removed by direct government bans and proscription. One media outlet used the picture below to illustrate the kind of organisations and imagery they want to be made illegal.
The MEP's also want EU wide powers to force some existing EU countries to ban and dismantle existing 'far-Right' political parties and pressure groups, including some, such as the Golden Dawn in Greece, which have elected members of state parliaments.
The EU vote by MEP's specifically wants pressure brought against Italy, Greece, Hungary and Spain, Poland, Germany, France, the Baltic states and Scandinavia.
Obviously the more successful militant patriotic and Nationalist organisations become, the louder the Left will scream for them to be outlawed.
In Scandinavia the Nordic Resistance Movement is currently seeing key activists being dragged before the courts as part of the opening moves by 'democratic' authorities to counter the rise of White European resistance to multi-culturalism.
The Nordic Resistance Movement - this level of disciplined, organised White Pride political activity terrifies the political Left and motivates state intervention to 'protect' the rotten edifice of a multi-racial society and multi-culturalism.
A New Awakening
The Way to a Man's Heart is Through his Stomach !
Quote: " My missus served this up for my dinner last night".
Professor Robert Faurrisson
Died in France, October 21st 2018
British Movement Opinions and Views on the News - October 2018.
BRITISH MOVEMENT OPINIONS AND VIEWS ON THE NEWS - OCTOBER 2018
THE LATEST GROOMING GANG SCANDAL
These are the twenty convicted rapists and groomers in the Huddersfield trials so far - there are two more due to be sentenced - note that ALL are from the so-called 'South Asian community'. The majority are media-styled 'British -Pakistani origin'.
The toxic output of a multi-cultural society.
Another series of grooming gang trials; these began in January 2018, and finally ended in mid-October 2018 with more than 20 defendants convicted.
Convicted of grooming under age girls, some as young as 11 years of age when the molesting and rapes began. This series of crimes goes back over more than a ten year period and as with similar cases in Rotherham and Rochdale, the police and social services were aware of the activities but chose either to ignore or delay taking action.
How can a 13 year old girl be in a sexual relationship with multiple Asian adult men and the situation be classed as "her choice"?
Now of course the trials have ended and the social services and police are ducking and diving to cover their backs and deflect criticism or legal action; just like Rotherham, Rochdale and Oldham etc. etc.
Note that from January 2018 until the end of the October trials, the courts imposed a 'gagging order' (reporting restrictions) on all the cases to silence the media lifting the lid on these cases.
The legally imposed silence was only lifted after the convictions because the newspapers and TV stations applied to the courts for restrictions to be legally removed, otherwise these
details could not have been made public.
All the usual commentators and 'community leaders' were trotted out in front of the TV cameras to condemn the abuse and of course declare that "these men do not represent the British-Pakistani community". Did we not hear that about Rochdale, Rotherham, Keighley, Oldham, Bradford, Telford, Peterborough, Oxford, Newcastle and a host of smaller such trials?
When are the mainstream political parties going to stop defending multi-culturalism?
When will they step forward and admit that these cases are a direct result of inflicting a
multi-racial, multi-cultural society on the indigenous people of the United Kingdom?
When will they admit that our country has been colonised by incompatible Third World populations and alien customs and cultures?
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Truth in Movies
Movies are different from books, even if the movie is based on a book, let's say a biography, or the history of an event. Fiction is another whole realm. Each—fiction and non-fiction—has its attractions.
If the biography or history expects to have an impact, it must be well written, organized and presented, preferably with a powerful message, and written in an equally compelling narrative. It also should be as close to the truth as the author can get.
Good histories or biographies not only stick to the truth, or the facts as they exist, but render an interpretation and/or a meaning derived from the subject of the book. In other words, anyone can compile the facts that surround, let's say, the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World. Compiled, that could be a chronology or encyclopedia entry.
But a great historian, like Samuel Eliot Morison for example, who produced a magnificent two-volume biography of Columbus, will interpret for us what Columbus was really about, his psychological profile, his world, his dreams, his accomplishments within the context of the late Medieval world.
A movie, on the other hand, is about two hours in length. It cannot replicate the length and richness of a biography. It must pick and choose how to render the story.
If you want to tell the story of the Civil War, for example, then a documentary maker such as Ken Burns will produce a long set of documentaries, each building on the last in the attempt to be thorough.
My prejudice, BTW, is for a movie based on history, the "true story" as I were. Saving Private Ryan was based on true events, and it knocked your socks off not simply because it viewed warfare, especially the invasion of Normandy at D-Day in June, 1944, for its brutality, but also because it was true. It happened.
It resonates differently with you than some dipsy doodle sci fi flick with wizards and super heroes battling in galactic space. That entertains. The non-fiction movie not only will entertain if done well, but it also will teach you something about yourself and our world.
Two new non-fiction movies have appeared recently, one a biography of a man, Unbroken, and the other the history of a moment in the Civil Rights movement, Selma. I read the book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand when it first came out.
I also lived through the 1960s when the Civil Rights movement was at its peak. While the battle of Selma unfurled and conquered the hearts and souls of so many Americans, I was in the fleet in the Mediterranean or Caribbean.
What is interesting in examining movies is sometimes what is left out. For me, it's like reading footnotes in a biography or history. You are likely to find some real gems in those notes which didn't make it to the narrative.
When I read Unbroken, the story of Louis Zamperini who spent almost three years as a POW of the Japanese during the Second World War, I was profoundly moved by Zamperini's encounter with the spirit of God at a Billy Graham crusade in Los Angeles in 1948.
Zamperini was changed from a hard drinking, angry, hateful survivor of awful persecution and suffering at the hands of the Japanese into a born-again Christian. It changed his life, but only survived as a short postscript to his life at the end of the movie.
In Selma the role of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in translating the power of the Civil Rights movement from the streets into legislation in 1964 and 1965 is hardly mentioned at all, and LBJ is depicted negatively.
That both Billy Graham and LBJ were either excised or misrepresented from the full story is of course the director or producer's prerogative. They put up the bucks and make the movies.
Their decisions reflect their judgment, perhaps their politics, their religious views, their agendas.
We don't grade movies, at least not formally, other than giving them ratings on the appropriate age level for viewers, from ok for family and the kiddies to XXX, which is close to pure, unbridled hard core violence or porn.
I might give these two movies a C- in my way of grading them as history. A C is average, and a minus is to indicate some serious flaws or failures to tell the "full" story.
I realize the limitations of putting a book or complicated story into the confines of a two hour movie. It takes tremendous creativity, sensitivity, discernment, and recognizing what is important.
The directors on these two movies get high marks on making exciting and moving films, but missed the mark on showing us what truly and "really" happened to Zamperini, and to how MLK,Jr.'s vision was translated into the law of the land.
Published in my OpEd column, "The Port Rail," Sunday January 25, 2015 as "Non-Fiction Movies Should Stick to Truth" in The Tuscaloosa News.
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Are Slogans Always Bad or Can They Inspire?
By Mark Graban	 On Jan 3, 2010 Last updated May 18, 2012
Many of you know I'm an alum of Northwestern University, graduating just prior to the Rose Bowl season of 1995. I'm a huge NU football fan and I was exhausted from watching the Outback Bowl on New Years Day, the 38-35 overtime loss to Auburn, what might have been one of the wildest finishes ever in college football.
Northwestern men's basketball, however, is still fighting its way into respectability. Will they reach the same level of success as NU football? Can I tie this into lean?
As our 1996 Rose Bowl coach, Gary Barnett, had always said, "There are no moral victories for Northwestern." This was true on Friday, but I was proud of our Wildcats for fighting back from two 14-point deficits and never giving up. That's a great "lean" personality characteristic to have, always working and fighting in the face of adversity on the football field or in any workplace.
While we are clearly no longer the perennial doormat of the Big Ten, the football team went without a bowl appearance from 1949 to 1996. We still haven't won a bowl game since 1949, losing all seven of the games we've played in the last 15 years.
The NU basketball team has the unfortunate distinction of being the ONLY team from one of the six NCAA Division 1 "power conferences" to NOT make the NCAA men's basketball "March Madness" tournament. The team was in the news this week for cracking the AP Top 25 rankings (at #25) for the first time in forty years, the longest drought in major college hoops history.
While watching the hoops team lose to Michigan State Saturday night, I read this blog post from ESPN that talked about the basketball team slogan for the year. These slogans are often used for marketing purposes. From ESPN:
…this year's Northwestern fan and team slogan is incredibly funny. It is, simply, "Make Shots." Usually team t-shirt slogans are something inspirational or ostensibly full of deep basketball insight. Not this. "Make Shots" might be the least inspirational, and therefore the most honest, team slogan of all-time. I love it.
I'm not sure I love it. Ah, slogans, one of the things Dr. W. Edwards Deming railed against. We've all seen our share of silly slogans and posters over the years. This one might rank up there with the most inane of them.
Gary Barnett, again harkening back to the early 1990's, instituted a new football team slogan that said "Expect Victory." While "Make Shots" is just an exhortation, there was much more meaning behind "Expect Victory." People had become far too comfortable with losing at Northwestern and Barnett wanted to shake that up lethargy. He wanted people to be upset if we lost (and this included the players).
I guess this was a case of a slogan working… but it was far more meaningful than "Make Shots." I think I'm not just making excuses for "Expect Victory" because that slogan led to good results, eventually.
In a factory, "Make No Defects" would be an empty slogan. Would "Expect Quality" be more meaningful?
On the whole, I'm still not a believer in slogans, especially when there's no change to the system to help make the goal of the slogan possible. What do you think?
Oh, and as current Coach Path Fitzgerald (a national Defensive Player of the Year on that NU Rose Bowl team) ends every interview or press conference…. "Go Cats."
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John Hunter says 11 years ago
Slogans are most often bad. But like most things they can be used in ways that help or hurt. The main problem is they often substitute for a method to achieve the aim. If the slogan serves like a mission statement, to focus people on something useful to focus on, AND it is one minor part of a system to achieve a result it can be fine and even useful.
The issue, to me, is not so much that slogans are innately horrible. It is that, in practice, slogan are used in harmful ways most often (especially outside of sports). They tend to substitute for system improvement. The main work of shifting psychology (we do expect to win now, we do expect a focus on reducing bugs in our code…) after years of creating a different culture has to be in changing methods, priorities, values… Slogans are just a way of focusing on the change, if done right.
Unfortunately, they also tend to be used as a way to focus criticisms on individuals. Don't you KNOW our slogan say zero defects. Can't you read. Jeez, I even put up a huge slogan saying zero defects and you can't even do what it says in this beautiful poster? Well I will give you a bad performance review now. You can't say you don't have that coming after you failed to do what our slogan told you to.
Dilbert does a great job on slogans:
http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/06/05/dilbert-and-deming/
Mike Sporer says 11 years ago
When slogans become mantra, I like em'. Kind of like a Guy Kawasaki approach……make mantra!
Bruce Baker says 11 years ago
Good question. Deming said in point ten that slogans and exhortations are bad (point 10). That being said, I think some slogans or mottos aren't bad. Hunter already said most of what I would have said so I won't rehash that stuff except to reemphasize his point that any slogan used to direct blame is bad.
When I was in the Corps an old gunny told me that the best mottos (kind of like slogans) were about choices (as opposed to a result). Our motto for the whole corps was "Semper Fidelis" — always faithful. Faithful is choice – you can't always be fast enough, strong enough, accurate enough, etc. You can do your best to be those things but they are outcomes. You can decide to be faithful. Officers and Non-commissioned Officers had another slogan, "troops first." The rule was that water, food, and medical treatment (within triage groups designated by Navy medical pros) were to be distributed in inverse order of rank ALWAYS. That's a choice. It's a choice that Marine leaders have made for generations. The gunny also taught me that they should appeal to a higher purpose and morality.
Applying the gunny's rule Make Shots isn't a very good motto but Expect Victory might make the cut.
I don't know if this adds or detracts from the discussion. Other than that I pretty much say what John said.
Jeff Hajek says 11 years ago
Slogans without substance are bad. But slogans do have a place when tied to real efforts to improve, especially, as Bruce mentioned, when there is a choice to be made.
'Just Pull It' (with acknowledgement to Nike) might be a good one for the andon cord.
I had a boss a long, long time ago who used to say 'Hope is not a method', which goes well with requiring people to countermeasure KPI misses with real actions.
Liz Guthridge says 11 years ago
In the case of the Northwestern basketball team and its poor performance, "Make Shots" is a great rallying cry. This slogan serves as a basic guiding principle to encourage team members to focus on an important action. "Make Shots" will only be effective, however, if the coach and others emphasize offense, not defense.
While Deming advocated against slogans, we have to acknowledge we live in a different world today, the world of attention deficit disorder. Coaches and other leaders need to cut through the clutter, get people's attention, and help them focus on the key actions they must take.
And as a Northwestern alum myself, I have suffered through many losing seasons with the sports teams. And I've had to do more than my fair share of explaining to high school classmates, friends and certain family members in my home state of Oklahoma as to why I was willing to leave behind Oklahoma sports teams for Northwestern academics. (Duh!)
But when I want it all–brains and brawn–I'll chant "Make Shots!"
P.S. "Make Shots" and "Expect Victory" are certainly more motivating than my high school football team's cheer: "Kill, kill. Blood makes the grass grow." Enough said.
Jon Miller says 11 years ago
Mark has raised an interesting point. This is one of Deming's teachings that I have never fully agreed with. In the USA slogans and exhortations by authorities may seem unnatural, while in more socialistic countries like Japan or China slogans feel quite natural. Even "don't drive drunk" is a slogan. Is that slogan a bad thing?
We need to understand what Deming meant by slogans and take it within the context of his 14 points and overall teaching. A banner on the wall that is empty of true action may be a slogan, while a phrase like "genchi genbutsu" or "go see for yourself" repeated again and again becomes a thought process, then a behavior and then a driver of great results. Phrases like these may not inspire, but they remind. Is "go to gemba" a slogan? If it is, there are many slogans at Toyota and within TPS.
The question is not whether slogans are bad, but why Deming said they should be avoided.
Andy Wagner says 11 years ago
In a similar era, I was in the Vanderbilt University Marching Band, perennial doormat of the SEC. We had an exciting new coach who coined the slogan "have fun, expect to win" with similar thinking to Barnett's "Expect Victory."
Of course, this quickly became "Have Fun, Expect two wins"… which is what we got.
I think Deming's principal objection was to empty slogans, with the qualifier that most of them are just that, empty.
Ford started advertising "Quality is Job 1" in the early 1980s. It was about 1986 (after switching slogans) that my dad came home from work and said "I think they might really mean it."
I think it's a fair qualifier to say "empty slogans."
But, pages 65 to 67, Dr. Deming doesn't mince words. He says "Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force."
He doesn't say "Eliminate empty slogans."
Why are slogans bad? Dr. Deming writes, in part, "They are directed at the wrong people. They arise from management's supposition that the production workers could, by putting their backs into the job, accomplish zero defects, improve quality, improve productivity, and all else that is desirable."
"The management needs to learn that the main responsibility is theirs from now on to improve the system…."
On that measure, I think the NU basketball slogan is worse (maybe the players just aren't talented enough… is that their fault?). Maybe they could practice more or work harder…
The NU football slogan was, as much as anything, directed at the fans, not just the players. I'm more tolerant of that old slogan, not just because "it worked".
Dr. Deming saw that slogans almost always caused harm. He saw that given the existing management systems they were a way for managers to shift responsibility (in their heads not really) from their need to fix the system to someone else by just pointing to a slogan.
If you first tell someone not to use a hammer in that way and show them how it should be used 10,20,50,100 times eventually I think you just say – Don't use hammers. This isn't exactly what Dr. Deming did but I think it is close. He does say "don't use slogans" and then he explains why http://curiouscat.com/deming/eliminateslogans.cfm You can assume those are the biggest reasons he had a the time for not using slogans. If you avoid those and get a large benefit it might not be so bad to use them.
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The Trump administration announced last week executive and regulatory action that will suspend guest worker visas through the end of the year and permanently end the exploitation of the H-1B visa system. Together, these actions go further than any administration in history toward prioritizing American jobs. With about 30 million Americans still out of work largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a welcome step.
The administration's new policy will, among other steps, restrict new H-1B visas and L visas, which are utilized primarily by the tech industry and large corporations, H-2B visas for non-agricultural seasonal workers, and J-1 visas, meant for research scholars, professors, and other cultural programs.
While these visas have a necessary place in our legal immigration system, over time they have evolved to serve corporate interests at the expense of both American jobs and the welfare of the immigrants who utilize them.
H-1B visas, in particular, have become an insidious way for major corporate industries, particularly tech companies, to exploit legal loopholes and avoid hiring — or even to replace — American workers who are deemed "too expensive."
According to the Economic Policy Institute, 60% of the H-1B positions in the fiscal year 2019 were at a wage lower than the local average wage. Increasingly, H-1Bs are used less to secure hard-to-find competencies than they are to subvert the American worker market to get foreign labor at a discount.
In 2015, Disney laid off about 250 American workers, replacing them with H-1B recipients brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Some of the laid-off American workers were then forced to train their own replacements. In testimony before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in 2016, former Disney employee Leo Perreo broke down crying as he recounted getting laid off from a job where he had just received the highest possible performance review and the humiliation of having to then train his foreign replacement.
Similar stories came out of corporations like Verizon, Northeast Utilities, Bank of America, New York Life, Hertz, and Southern California Edison. These companies aren't reducing their workforce; rather, they're laying off qualified Americans so they can import or outsource to foreign workers to do the same job.
Hal Salzman of Rutgers University testified before the Senate in 2016 that "all evidence and events ... suggest we are heading down a very different path consisting of legislation, policies, and programs to substitute guestworkers for U.S. STEM workers and graduates."
Thanks to the Trump administration, major loopholes in the H-1B visa system that allow this substitution of Americans with cheaper foreign replacements will now be closed.
But it's not just American workers who are impacted. The short-term visa system also incentivizes poor treatment of the visa recipients themselves. Workers brought to the U.S. on H-1Bs are tied to their employer for the length of the visa. A job loss means immediate return to their country of origin, possibly for the entire family, a situation Gaurav Mehta, an Indian H-1B called "constant fear."
A year-long investigation by NBC's Bay Area's Investigative Unit and The Center for Investigative Reporting uncovered systemic abuses of the H-1B system that resulted in "Silicon Valley's 'body shop(s)'" where skilled and educated foreign workers were treated like "indentured servants.
The corporate tech lobby tends to argue that they cannot find Americans certified in science, tech, engineering, and math (STEM) to perform these highly skilled technology jobs. But that is, increasingly, not the case. According to Census Bureau data, the country has more than twice as many workers with STEM degrees as there are STEM jobs.
According to a 2014 analysis, about a two-thirds of native-born Americans with STEM undergraduate degrees work in unrelated fields — perhaps because the STEM jobs they could have are taken by cheaper foreign labor and the fact that wages in the field are suppressed (STEM wages have increased only modestly in over a decade, despite being a high-demand field).
The U.S. federal government spends approximately $3 billion a year incentivizing U.S. students in STEM education — why, then, does our immigration system incentivize U.S. companies away from hiring them?
The issues with the highly skilled H-1B and L-1 visas also apply to the other guest worker visas subject to the Trump administration's suspension.
The J-1 visa program was thrust into the spotlight recently after the arrest of Xin Wang, a high-ranking Chinese military officer and scientist, for his attempts to steal medical research from the University of California. Wang was in the U.S. on a J-1 work-study exchange visa.
And the H-2B guest worker program can keep jobs away from the neediest Americans.
Our legal immigration system is badly in need of substantive reform to ensure that visa programs, and the immigrants who benefit from them, are not exploited. But as millions of Americans struggle to find work, the measures announced by The White House will finally give them a fighting chance in industries where Americans are too often ignored and displaced.
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I have no gas in the tank. Lack of food, and lack of sleep. I think it's the lack of sleep that really got me. That concert this past Friday? Getting to bed at 2 AM (WAY WAY WAY past my bedtime) and all that's cascaded since then… I had a mid-day doze, then crashed hard and early on the couch last night, woke up hard from my alarm this morning. Yeah, my body needs to recoup. Once I hit the squats AMRAP and couldn't crank, I knew that was it. I changed up, did get some work in, but didn't push it hard like I normally do. Normally these leg days are very hard and leave me quite drained — I don't need to do that right now, if I'm this far in the hole already.
So, the day what it was. Got some work in, and hopefully didn't dig the hole too much deeper.
One cool thing was going back to leg presses from high-bar squats. I did it for two reasons: 1. just to drop the work down, 2. I was curious if my knee would still complain. I just did a very easy work-up on the presses, and my knee was happy. That was cool.
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On Tuesday in Licking County, one man was killed in a fire in a home on Sycamore Road SW
Ohio fires kill 16 in December On Tuesday in Licking County, one man was killed in a fire in a home on Sycamore Road SW Check out this story on newarkadvocate.com: http://ohne.ws/1BGtBl5
AP Published 10:21 p.m. ET Jan. 8, 2015 | Updated 6:25 a.m. ET Jan. 9, 2015
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CINCINNATI – A string of multiple-fatality home blazes made December Ohio's deadliest fire month of 2014 and pushed the year's death toll to 115.
Statistics requested by The Associated Press from the State Fire Marshal's Office show 16 people were killed by fires last month, causing an increase in the year's death toll after three straight years of declining numbers. The state reported 103 fire deaths in 2013, after 106 in 2012, 128 in 2011 and 155 in 2010. The 2013 total had been the fewest in 27 years.
January of this year, however, has been following that trend. On Tuesday in Licking County, one man was killed in a fire in a home on Sycamore Road Southwest, and on Tuesday morning in Sugar Grove, a town in Fairfield County, a fire killed five people in one home.
An early morning house fire in Hamilton killed three children Dec. 12 in southwestern Ohio. Their parents and two other children survived the fire, which is still under investigation.
Two adults were killed in a Dec. 24 mobile home fire in Monroe County in eastern Ohio. On Dec. 26, a woman and her three grandsons died in a fire in her home near Washington Court House in southwest Ohio. There were no survivors in those fires.
With the seven Ohio fire deaths already this year, 14 people have died in four multiple-fatality house fires in less than four weeks' time.
State fire marshal's spokeswoman Lindsey Burnworth said it's difficult to say why there's been a recent surge in fire deaths since most of the fires' causes are still under investigation.
The fire marshal's office said late Wednesday there was no reason to suspect criminal activity in the Tuesday fire near Sugar Grove. Investigators said electrical and heating sources haven't been ruled out as possible causes.
Several nonfatal home fires in recent days have been linked by firefighters to space heaters as winter temperatures have plunged.
"With the extremely cold temperatures we are currently facing, please remember to check your home's heat sources and use caution with any space heaters, generators or electrical outlets," State Fire Marshal Larry Flowers said in a statement.
He also urged Ohioans to have smoke alarms on every level of their homes and in all sleeping areas and to practice fire escape plans.
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